iOS 7 – Having Trouble Seeing Your App Names?

By Judy Novotny / 09/23/2013 / 4 Comments / Apple iOS Devices, Apple iOS Operating System, How-To

I, along with millions of others, recently updated my iPhone’s operating system to iOS 7. While I like the visual effects of iOS 7, I quickly discovered that I was having trouble reading the names of my apps. I know that iOS 7 is supposed to be a gentler, kinder interface for the app names were a little too faint for me.

It was easy enough to fix. I just activated Bold Text in the Accessibility options. Just go to Settings > General > Accessibility. Go to ‘Bold Text’ and move the slider from left to right. Note that a restart of your device will be necessary to activate this.

These are the before (left) and after (right) screenshots.

About The Author

Judy Novotny

Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.

4 thoughts on “iOS 7 – Having Trouble Seeing Your App Names?”

Good suggestion.
09/28/2013 at 4:12 am
Now why didn’t I think of that!
Chuckles
09/28/2013 at 4:14 pm
Super– I just downloaded “7”this AM and wondered why the app text was so hard to read. Go Girl!!
Judy Novotny
09/29/2013 at 8:35 pm
Thanks for the feedback. Glad to see that it just wasn’t me. 🙂
jack
09/30/2013 at 2:04 pm
Thanks for the improvement suggestion. Now, how about restoring the old calendar? Jack

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